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Quotes about wisdom
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
“Every man is a d--n fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.”
“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”
“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”
“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.”
“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”